DOE requests $5.4M: Board of Education approves supplemental budget

11:35 AM,
May 31, 2014

Fernandez

Written by

Amanda Francel Blas
Pacific Sunday News

The Guam Department of Education is requesting $5.4 million to help cover its expenses until next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

At a special meeting held on May 23, the Guam Board of Education approved DOE's supplemental budget request.

"This budget would cover our needs before Oct. 1 when the fiscal year starts," DOE Superintendent Jon Fernandez said. "The school year starts in August, and we start getting ready in June. It'll help take care of our additional costs we'll incur." ...